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, the ° s she ' of t" s; deal for SI. g bh ft ea► :se' bai p lot , las PSI lan ce lost ° a fr°l Lo bte, bet" ' vcseg:, ,r 1 AorouPl boo in; er re O r sa fe e l let ter b 4 1 tor Yf i° Pill 61P4 ale 46 otoi tit' Fu b° "( e ipocbc BRIGHTON, OCT. 23, 1818: Yesterday, in the forenoon, Lords YARMOUTH /11 LOWTHER, Sir JOHN LEACH (the Vice-Chan eellor), Mr. N —AsH, and Mr. I.3lcKset.t., arrived at the Pavilion ; and at six o'clock his Royal Hipt Si, ,eo m ness the P RINCE REGENT, accompanied by He ss BLOOMFIELD, arrived there to dia.. bet' from Kew. In the e ve n i n g th e ttvO new looms, the music -roam, and the dining-room, Hwere illuminated, for the inspection ot liis Royal ighness. Wh en comp l eted, w h; c h w ill b e be e, ch risinias, they will be two of the hAnd anmest rooms in the kingdom. The fall band 1. ) ,. 6 Yed most deli g h t f u ll y t h e w h o l e o t t h e even ng It i s reported, that his Royal Highness will " kv e this place for Kew in the course of the day, 1 0 that his Royal Highness's short visit to his Alarme Palace. will not have prevented his daily t atte ntion to his Royal and afflicted Mother, whose re at stren gt h o f const i tut i on st i ll ena bl es h er +sty to resist the most violent attacks of her Painful disorder; and that will probably be the ease till the lamp of lite is quite exhausted. 51r JAMES MANSFIELD, Sir PHILIP FRANCIS, COUTTS, whose ages• together amount to 3, have been ba s ki ng today in the sun, on the (leone, for a considerable time. The influx of t i al iloy for the last two or three days, owing to fineness of the weather, has been very great. t all the best, b u t th e secon d b est , h ouses - se ad occupied. FOR THE SUN. % I Re EDITOR,-Your Readers will probably re , g h ize the f o ll ow i ng paragraph as h avin goccupied "Ilicnons place in an article on " Mr. MORRIS. the"ECK.s MACS on a 3onrney in America" in "st Nomb er of th e Quarterly Review. f:yViiit regard to Friend Nlorris, we understand at. at durin g t h e l ate war, he held the lease of a th t t". a new e d re rent of about 5001. which was worth it " ti mes that sum : that on its expiring he bad Irahi e at a r ent more near ly a pp roac hi ng i ts , when , the sudden change from war to an d ) al'ing reduced the demand for produce, telt l s c "sequently, the v a lu e o f l an d, t o rid him %Th.! his engagements, and his country at the he thr ew - u p hi s f arm tot b eau twain, an d, tittii ° i ,; ai t 'gbing in his sleev e at the hum o r o us tri c k tr t "e h a d p l aye d hi s unsuspect i ng l an dl or d , 11 411 , at an a laud speculationiuto the back settle of North America." tet,:e following is a real statement of the re oli et aPees to which the Reviewer alludes, on the ~ et'tiCity of which you may rely : r IitIiKBECK held a farm under Lord O uc sr left O n lease, at a rent of 12001. a year. L rd Ott s , 4n g l arid with the toll knowledge o f o "*. and hi s son w as , w ith hi s . Lordship's to c i ti '", and a f ter a p art i cu l ar en q u i r y i n to hi s • Leir left behind to manage the farm.— . " . 1 th e , "tssLow having intimated nu opinion that it s •et tt at w hi ch the farm was held was beneath 114 r t .." value, M r. B IRK BFCK,jun, Said, that if te tnl ilis hiP could find a tenant at an advanced • the. t •' t e would willingly give up hi s interest in to) ea se (of which about 14 years' were unexpir- Th; ( 1 r eceiving an ad e q uate compensa tio n .— *h ip r ' e , 4 „" has since been r e li nqu i s h e d t o his Lord giterei"t„lle.sum of 20001. another tenant having 1'1:4 .1 )(1 /. a year for the farm." : e , ?lt atio Is only one of the many misrepre iiii," so I t ) i te tt jth which the article abounds ; but -k ktp v'Y affects the moral character of Mr.. i end -rt . I have thought it my duty, as his 3 : 3 l. (i ge ' f r t° "Y it before the public. They will 'ue t his specimen, of the spirit in which b art• • .• and of the reliance e p i a e wiuten, t'iirt er c e'l on statements coining from such c a I am, Sir, Your most obedient Servant, Ly. itt sti t Vire insert this article as an appeal to our IVriter had omit ted l)(l cando ur, but we wish the t I" the reflection on The Quarterly Review beNP* 4 r pti.".e CIU Se of it, as we are persuaded, from all an 411 'w of :hat valuable work, that nobody c ats old'ell°re solicitous for authentic matter than the be e - b a l'il learned Gentleman who is reported to .e Conductor ot it. it a y ita y 1 BR UITING ' order was issued t o s ast t o all the recruiting parties in . London, . on Mon orders lis P e t'd the enlisting of men until further 4 ou ell°ll states, that a short Brevet will take plac . e , bP the ref urn of our troops from the Coutinen. ct:„,t) Colonels, but not to Major- Generals. Re_ lac number of Lieutenants of the 10th •,,ht latP t has been reduced to twelve, and the et, we as have been placed on half-pay. 0, Sir S kli e are concerned to state, that the Lady t 11 ( u"-• ItobitaLy lies dangerously ill, without ' ' F l a ( ' re r . • the Isle of Wight, „ toil eovery, at —owes, In %twi lit AND PIIRSECUTION,—.-TtleS( )44101. CI , was opened in the village o f Tol ley a Me- Pani, d , set ; and a number p oe 'l I)" ' - ofpersons accom tßsi tt)e Ministers from Weymouth on t he .. IthicT;' After evening service, when the Monsters , of „il;Jeir friends were' preparing to return, a mob • 4) -- 'at 100 persons assembled, and behaved It %t oNst disorderly manner. A lady belonging to litt eli4tsters' party, before she could get into . tn4,l-dtr,'"ge, was pushed down a hank into the ita i l 4;...t1'e horses being frightened by the tumult Oo,hrse, the driver w as for a considerable time he I lee e tt) of ; and the ladies were under the ti 'l:,Yit!l' walking a great distance, arrlit/ urotal insults. The drivers, horses, and exposed to . thv ~v4', were pelted with stones, mud, &c. ; :hit „V`,"vs of the chaise broken, and even the iady,-. the chaise was pierced by a stone. One tlo,„ wi'ib rode by the driver, received a severe fr r)n i i ) , 4 her head ; and at Piddletown, two miles heti, 41Noldle, the driver received a blow in his l i)ti vi ' i clit, had it not been for a large neck- Ci r '' tv ould 1-(4tiei Probably have proved fatal,puth I.`„ e ) Ittatte‘tlaY night, as Mr. Cunningham, dancing' l 'tt ii 4' (4. fig ht, Hanover-square, was tri o that'll' me front Lflg c ware, when he arrived ', (° Ppq l ":, 4 " of the road near Kilburn, lie was L ' P ese tit , two men dressed in smock-frocks, who ' 1, ~,''' pistol to his head and robbed him of 4111 Pet ite "d some silver wards, tvili which they (le tters:lsi the fiod ik to Hampstead. POETRY. JUVENAL, SAT. XII. from Verse 81 to 95. TO CORVINUS. Go then attentively, my virtuous boys, Calm be your minds, and bush'd be every voice; Wreaths of sweet flow'rets for the shrines prepare, Meal on your blades be plac'd with pious care ! Deck the soft hearths with every bud of spring, And the green turf in all its freshness bring; I'll follow, fill'd with reverence and delight, • To offer to the Gods each sacred rite-- Then home returning, shining crowns shall grace Each little waxen image in its place— To our own Jove libations will I pour, • And scatter incense round the hallow'd On Household Gods rich frankincense bestow, And all the colours of the violet throw. • Tall, verdant boughs around my gate shall twine, And morning lamps in festive radiance shine— All splendid, all complete.—Think not, my friend, I meanly grasp at any selfish end— Oh no, ConviNus . ! He for whose return My shrines are deck'd, for whom my altars burn, Is good CATULLUS—He, whose bounty rears, With tenderness, three little infant heirs, Worthy their father's love, their mother's cares. - Bury St. Edmund's. W. S. REGISIER OF FASHION. ARRIVALS. Mr. and Mrs. Clifton, at the Palteney Hotel, from Paris; Hon. Arthur Calvert, and Mr. Gurney, from Paris; Hein. Mr. Coventry, from Newmarket, at the Prince of Saxe Cobourg Hotel, Charles-street, Grosvenor-square; the Duke and Duchess of St. Albans, at their house, in St. James's-square, Iron► their seat, Gatton, Surrey; John Badham, Esq. at Fenton's Hotel, St. Jarnes's-street, from Paris; Major and Mrs. Holloway and family, from the Continent. DEPARTURES. The Duchess of Buccleuch, fur her seat, at Richmond ; the Earl and Countess of Darnley, for their seat, Cobham Hall, Kent ; P. Paul, Esq. from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, to his seat in Gloucestershire ; Mr. and Mrs. Haswell and family, to their seat, in Dorsetshire; Captain and Mrs. Fen wick, to their seat, near Canterbury; Mr. and Mrs. Rook wood to their scat, near Durham ; Lieutenant-General and Mrs. Orr, to the New Forest, Hampshire. CHANGES. The Earl of Chesterfield, from his scat, in Derbyshire, for Eton; Viscount and Viscountess Hampden, at Clynde Hall, Sussex, from a tour; Mrs. J. Lung, fruits Lower Grosvenor street, on a lisit to the Rev. William Long Sternfield, Saxmundham, Suffolk. BATH ARRIVALS, OCT. 23.—Earl St. Germain, Viscount Weymouth, Lord H. Thynne • Lord E. 0. Brien, Dowagur Lady de Clifford, Lady Morgan, Hon. Mr. aud•Lady E. Camp bell, Sir J. Davy, Sir S. Hayes, Sir E. Kuatchbull, Sir A. and Lady Willson, Major-General and Mrs. Browne, Colonel and Mrs. Browne, Colonel and Mrs. James, Major Loyde, Major and Mrs. Thorne, Captain and Mrs. Flint, Captain Northey, It. N. Captain Crofton, Captain Fitzgerald, Captain H. King, Captain Lely, Captain M‘Gregor, Captain Parry, Captain Steward, Captain Watts, and Captain Warriner. ARRIVALS AT LEAMINGToN.—Lard Lynedock, Hon. Mr. Brand, M. P. Gen. Macanl4, Sir Charles and Lady Asgill, Colonel and Mrs. Foley, Captain Barclay, Rev. T. P. and Mrs. Foley, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan. Extract of a letter from Halifax, Novia Scotia, Sept. 28:—'' 011 the 19th instant an alarming fire broke out in the large Dutch ship belonging to Mr. V. Major, which he had some time since converted into an extensive store. It was totally consumed, and several other small buildings, a carpenter's shop on Story's Wharf, &c. It is said Mr. Major's loss is very great, as this store con. tabled West India produce, fish, &c. to a large amount, but his dwelling-house was fortunately saved." CAUTION.—A woman, having the appearance of a laundress, called, about three o'clock on day afternoon, at the house of Mr. Simmonds, Marchmont-street, Brunswick-square, saying she came fur the clothes to be mangled ; on which the servant, without hesitation, gave her a large basket of clothes, containing sheets, table-cloths, nap kins, shirts, shifts, gowns, petticoats, and other articles of wearing apparel, to the amount of 251. with which she made off, and has not since been heard of. The servant had been previously with the mangle woman, to tell her to send for the clothes, which she promised to do in. half an hour, within which time the thief called, and ob tained them. Several robberies of a similar oa tore have lately been committed in that neigh bourhood, and it is supposed by the same person. Early in the morning of Sunday se'unight, the counting-house of Messrs. Gill, merchants, of Thetford, was broken into by a hole made through the root and ceiling. Mr. Potter, who slept in an adjoining room, being alarmed, hurried to the place, and found Wm. Cock, a carpenter of that town, removing some halfpence from a desk which he had broken open. Mr.. P. presented a pistol at the villalu, who pretended to surrender, but seizing an opportunity, afterwards attacked Mr. Potter, when he fired one of his pistols, but missed the thief. Cock then cried out that he had a pistol, upon which Mr. P. stepped back, and pulling the trigger of his other weapon, which three times missed fire, the robber threw up the sash and leaped down, being a distance of 15 feet. He was soon after taken at Lopham, and committed by J. B. Faux and E. Willett, Esqrs. the next. day. • The 24th Number of the British Review, which will be published on the Ist of November, will comprise articles on the following subjects :- 1. Means of National Improvement, in the Gene nil System of Education, and its Prison Discipline; 2. Madame de Stael's Wolk on the French Revo lution ; 3. Wilson's Sermons ; 4. Necessity of Amending the Criminal Law of England; 5. New Tales of My Landlord ; 6. Progress of Typhus Fever, and its Treatment ; 7. Disputes between America and Spain; 8. On the Appointment of a Chaplain to Bethlem Hospital ; 9. Sketch of the History of India from the Presidency of Has tings, Mill's History of British India ; 10. Intel ligence from the Expedition toiexplore the North West Passage. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' ACT. FOR THE SUN. Mr. Enieroß,..—ln pursuance of my, promise, I submit the following instances of misconduct of the practising Agents in the Insolvent Court to the public, and abuses'are daily exemplified which imperatively call for legislative interference, as the mischiefs are becoming too extensive for re• tribution. Amongst other evils, prisoners for debt, who are . studious to obviate the rights of Creditors, and in duce a supposition that they are destitute of means to pay, procure an Agent of the Insol vent Court, who willingly lends himself to the fraudulent views of the Debtor to swear to a debt which never existed, which will hold the alledg ed De!►tor in custody as effectually as if he was truly and absolutely indebted at the snit of a bona fide creditor ; this is what Debtors call a friendly detainer, which is resotted to by the Agent,. with an intention to frustrate legal claims, and to deceive and impose upon the generous part of mankind, and in some cases to evade responsibili ty for a gross violation of the law. This highly reprehensible practice is not founded in any case upon a principle of justice, and in effect is most ' injurious to the public. In contemplation of the present ACt, these friendly detainers are common ly resorted to by the Agents, and enable Debtors to riot in the spoils of villainy, in defiance of right and equity, wasting the property of their Creditors and imposing on the credulity of man kind. These practices require instant correction. A case lately occurred at the Insolvent Debtors' Court, where a Debtor had colluded with one of the Agents to arrest him for the purpose of taking the benefit of the Act, and the Agent accordingly proceeded under a fictitious claim, and lodged the Debtor in the Fleet Prison. The Debtor was afterwards brought op to be discharged, but re manded for gross fraud, it appearihg that the wicked Agent had arrested the Debtor upon a fic titious debt. After the Debtor, however, had been remanded, the Agent wrote the discharge of the Debtor, and lie was released, to the great in jury of his real Creditors. If the Debtor had em ployed an Attorney conversant with his affairs, he might probably have benefited by such advice ; and it the Attorney had recommended collusive and fraudulent conduct, he might have imn►e diately been called upon to answer for his con duct in the Court whereof he is admitted an At torney. But these infamous Agents are not amenable to any Tribunal, nor under the influence or fear of moral obligation, and consequently the community n►ust experience much injury from this self-created agency; and such is their ascendancy, that they collude with the Debtors in preparing garbled schedules, and are a great inducement to fraud and robbery by the Debtor, to the preju dice of just and honest tradesmen. Such a system of FRAUD and depredation thus carried on, must have very considerable influence on the conduct of Debtors who wish to practice evasions on their Creditors, and no good remedy will result from means to defeat their pernicious designs, unless by regulations to exclude them al together. Daily experience, and public state ments, fully establish the propriety of such an ex clusion. It is almost an uniform practice with these men to abandon their Debtor, aud'uotally disregard the interest of his Creditors from the moment his release is obtained, so that, in point of fact, whatever subsequent proceedings may be requisite for the furtherance of the Act, and the protection of mutual rights, such proceedings must fall into the hands of persons who have not been heretofore advised with. An instance of this sort occurred at the sittings of the last Cotirt. which I shall adduce in direct evidence of what I have stated :—J. M. was remanded by the Court, on account of his having an 'attachment against him for disobedience of an order of a Court of Equity, in not transferring certain Stock standing in his own name and that of another. — The Learned Counsel suggested the mode of re lief, by application to such superior Court. The prisoner has made application to professional practitioners, who disapprove being concerned for hint on account of his previously employing a person out of the profession ; and such person being unqualified for, and unacquainted with, the practice of proceedings in such superior Court, the prisoner may now lament in vain that he did not confide himself and his affairs to a regular practitioner in the first instance. In addition to these cases, I submit my further observations on the impolicy of the present Act, and its conseyiences on the community. Acts of Insolvency have, in numberless instances, hitherto induced the contemplation of fraud and robbery, and annihilated the just claims of Creditors. Many persons habituated to indolence, vice, and knavery, have contracted - debts to a considerable amount, and surrendered themselves to prison with the property in their possession, and after a series of some months passed dissolute idleness and low debauchery, they have been liberated by the Insolvent Act, and have recommenced their career of plunder and fraud, without the smallest recompence or indem uity to the Creditor. The expectation of such Acts give birth to artful invention, is the parent of villainy, and the most abandoned persons are let loose on Society to repeat their depredations without fear of pu nishment. Those partial remedies have so often been the cause of injurious consequences, that they are productive of prejudice and detriment to trade and credit. If every Debtor was to give up his property in possession and expectancy to satisfy his Creditors, a very large capital would be gained to the community, which is now liable to be absorbed in the sinks of corruption and turpi tude. Such a measure would relieve public bounty, encourage commercial enterprise, increase the public revenue, and afford the best protection to the plundered and credulous tradesmen. There are numerous stratagems resorted to under the present Act, by which the fraudulent Debtor may contrive to evade the claim of any one credi tor by whom he is held its custody ; or by collu sion with an Agent, may procure his discharge from prison, and rob all his bona fide creditors by removing off his ill-acquired property, or by in vesting it in the purchase of funds in the name of a fictitious proprietor. One of the most prominent evils under the pre sent Act, therefore, is the optional impiisonmenc ot the debtor in prejudice o i iie g, 'lei cii ut his creditors, and in opposition to the end for which such imprisonment was originally rized by law ; it is an abuse which has long beefi tolerated in practice, though it has no foundation iu principle. Tt►e first object of imprisonment for debt being. to enforce the discharge of obligations and d 6. mends by means within the power of the debtors; he may legally and reasonably be coerced in his liberty, until he shall restore those means. Amongst the east horde of miscreants retained by rapacious and low Agents of the Insolvent Court, wretches can at all times be hired to sweat• to an►y facts which may promote the base intention of their employers, whether directed to the arrest of a❑ unfortunate man, or to protect the frautlti lent ; thus the unprincipled debtor, with the co operation of a friendly and collusive plaintiff, and the interested advice of an Agent, tinder the Act, secures himself by hired bail, which he purchases with a part of the creditor's property, and defies the consequences of legal proceedings. The bona fide creditor is harassed by the inter minable proceedings and vexations, and after com bating manoeuvres of his ►►nprincipled foe, aided by Agents and Associates of complete experience in the field of legal art and chicanery, finds that the prisoner can still retain the basely acquired property in licentious indulgence and profligate expenditure, uncontrouled by Law or Equity. The honest tradesman, who has imprudently accredited an imposing adventurer, under the specious semblance of character, vainly eudea. yours to recover his loss ; and, in addition to his disappointment, is moitified in finding that law expences have accompanied his fruitless pursuits. It is evident, therefore, from the foregoing re marks,that according to the provisions of the pre sent Act, the most unprincipled characters in So ciety may, by virtue of their exparte oath, baffle the endeavours, and defeat the hopes of lawful creditors. Other instances offer themselves daily from the different prisons, in which depredations are com mitted by the Agents to the real annoyance of creditors. I need not apprise the Poi)lie that a professional man in any of the superior Courts dare not at his peril so behave ; but whilst these Agents are permitted to proceed without the re sponsibility that attaches to the profes s ion, the mischiefs must be inevitable and alarming, and loudly call for redress and public protection. At the best these men can be considered as hangers on ; and there is no true Amicus Curia but must discountenance their irregular, surreptitious, and unprincipled transactions ; few of them have oc casion for countenance, as their own unblushing effrontery pronounces them attendant or collea gues with the brass foundry of impertinence. I feel I am trespassing on the valuable columns of your Paper, and shall, therefore, defer my sug gestions as to the extension of remedies in pre vention of abuses, intending them as a subject of a future letter, and I now conclude with the fol lowing quotation in point : " That an individual should be refused the means of coin pelliuk the payment of a debt justly due to him, would be a reproach to the judicial polity of any Country."—Lords' Coin• minces Report on Imprisonment for Civil Debt. %Vine Otiice-court, Oct. 1818. SCRUTATOR. P. S. A reply to the questions of your modest Correspondent " Indoctus," is dne to him as a small tribute of approbation, and to his motives and zeal in the cause of honesty and misfortune ; and I shall not long remain itt arrear to him—con gratulating yourself and the Public in having so able a successor to the path lately trodden by your Correspondent, " Au Old Barrister." The consumption of sheep and lambs in Lon don, during the bist twelve months, amounted its number to one million, sixty-two thousand, seven hundred. The number of horned cattle slaugh tered, was one bundled and sixty-four thousand; and by the Inspector's return, it appears that the number of horse-hides produced, at Leadenhall market, amounted to twelve thousand nine hun dred. Yesterday an inquest was taken on the body of, Mrs. Ann Rowder, of No. 4, Fartn-street, aged 64 years. On Wednesday the son-in-law of the deceased was arrested for 151., and taken to a Lock-up House. The deceased, her daughter, and six children under nine years of age, were &pen dent upon him for support. Upon being acquainted with the circumstances, the shock was too great, nature sunk beneath the blow, and she instantly expired. Verdict—" Died by the Visitation of God." An outrage of a singular nature took place last week at Shenley Fair, a place three miles beyond Fenny-Stratford. One Sibthorpe, a farmer, be ing in a state of intoxication, proposed a game at pitch and toss with Cook, the hostler of the inn ; the conditions to be, that the winner should cut the other's. throat ; chance deciding in fa vour of Sibthot pe, he forthwith-tripped ttp the hostler's heels, and with a knife cut part of the skin from his throat, which bled profusely for a length of time, and reduced the man to a very weak state. Fortunately no very serious conse quences are likely to ensue. Muanaa.—On Saturday se'nnight, a man of the name nt Kennedy, designing hituselt a basket maker from Lochmaben, was apprehended ;t t Cutunock. on a charge of murder. It appears that, some time ago, he had a scuffle with a ma il of the name of William Irvine, in a house near Selkirk, ain't that Irvine died in a few days after wards, in consequence of the bruises he received in the scuffle. Kennedy, after being examined, and the declarations taken of two hawkers from Cumberland, who were aware of the circumstance, has been imprisoned in Ayr jail. At the General Quarter-session for the City of Bath, held on Monday last, Marquis Camden at tended as Recorder, and witnessed adn.inistering the oaths of allegiance to the Mayor and Justice. At this Session Aaron Worcester, servant to Lady Staines, widow of Alderman Sir Wm. Staines, of London, and now resident in this city, was convicted of assaulting an elderly female, a fellow servant, and sentenced to one mouth's imprison ment. Her Ladyship in person pleaded most powerfully for the defendant ; and after sen tence was pronounced, appealed, hut ineffectually, to the Beneli for mitigation of punishment.